As the preeminent international development agency for the past sixty years, the World Bank
has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise. Critics are especially quick to decry the …

The process of globalization has meant the intensification of global interdependencies and
the consolidation of the global as a social horizon, and this has provided fertile breeding …

Neoliberalism has shaped African development for nearly thirty years. As such, it is not an
economic'shock'or a'structural adjustment', but rather a historic shift in Africa's development …

This paper draws on a governmentality framing to consider the global fight against
corruption and the role of accounting in that fight. Specifically it examines two contrasting …

We use a newly assembled indicator of corruption from Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) to
examine the effects of corruption on economic growth. The V-Dem indicator is coded for …

This manuscript was written over the course of 2012. It was Adrian Leftwich's last substantial
piece of work before undergoing gruelling treatment for lung cancer and a short, but typically …

Elite corruption in Uganda constitutes an essential means of consolidating the present
government in power. Political leaders have therefore shown little commitment to act to curb …

There are growing calls for religion to be used in the fight against corruption on the basis of
the assumption that religious people are more concerned with ethics than with the non …

This article engages with the ways in which corruption has taken centre stage in much
development policy making and rhetoric. It argues that there is a need to destabilise 'taken …

This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political
constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as …